MGMT 337
Spectrum Crisis Assignment

The wireless data transmission industry is running out of airwaves necessary to provide service to its customers. The crisis exists because of dramatic demand for wireless services, which outpaced improvements in technological efficiency. With the population growing in the United States, more people are utilizing wireless communications, which means prices go up and quality goes down. Mobile consumers don’t care about frequencies, bandwidth, or spectrum. They want faster service. One way to help avoid the spectrum crisis is to better improve the frequencies for all the wireless services. Since all the wireless carriers need to send data all over the world or maybe just few feet apart, many places like universities, restaurants, stadiums have set up short range Wi-Fi receivers that operate on unlicensed portions of the radio spectrum. These short range receivers will help offset people who have cell phones or any other digital device from using the precious spectrum. Data will be sent through them instead of through the long range cell phone frequencies. A second alternative is to actually use all of the wireless frequencies available or to share them since almost every person in the world likes to use the internet on whatever gadget they have available to them. Instead of limiting an amount of users to a single bandwidth, the wireless capacity could be widened and therefore have much more users on a single bandwidth. For example, if frequencies that are reserved for radio and television broadcasts that are not being used at a certain time, these frequencies could be used for cell phone users and their carriers. Although they will be using the spectrum, it is part of the spectrum that was reserved and not being used and now it could be used to its full potential if needed to. Another example is the frequencies or